I wish we would do away with Daylight Saving time. The holidays are often times of sadness for lots of adults, and when we change our clocks back one hour, it makes it dark at around 4:30pm in the East, so not only is the darkness, depressing, but the holiday blues dont help.
It takes about 20 days for pigeon eggs to hatch. After the eggs are hatched, the baby pigeons are known as squabs. Both the mother and father pigeons will feed the babies crop milk, a protein and fat rich substance that is created in an esophageal sac called the crop.
Some Very Basic Pigeon Facts. Pigeons mate for life and rear their broods together, although if one dies the other will take a new mate. Once the simple nest is built, the female lays an egg and then another a day or so later. The incubation period for common pigeons is 17 to 19 days. The female sits on the egg from late afternoon through the night until about 10AM. The male then takes over and does the day shift.